Feminists, What About This? LA Times Columnist Compares Sarah Huckabee Sanders to a ‘Chunky Soccer Mom’

Isn’t this crazy!!

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Horsey centered his latest column, “Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the right mouthpiece for a truth-twisting president,” on the press secretary’s status as a “pro” at delivering the Trump administration’s message to the press corps and extended media…

Horsey wrote these two paragraphs that have since been deleted from the piece:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders does not look like the kind of woman Donald Trumpwould choose as his chief spokesperson. Much like Roger Ailes when he was stocking the Fox News lineup with blond Barbie dolls in short, tight skirts, the president has generally exhibited a preference for sleek beauties with long legs and stiletto heels to represent his interests and act as his arm candy.

Trump’s daughter Ivanka and wife Melania are the apotheosis of this type. By comparison, Sanders looks more like a slightly chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kids’ games. Rather than the fake eyelashes and formal dresses she puts on for news briefings, Sanders seems as if she’d be more comfortable in sweats and running shoes. Yet, even if Trump privately wishes he had a supermodel for a press secretary, he is lucky to have Sanders.

Sanders is the White House press secretary — only the third female ever hold this title!  Okay, so here we have a male writer who believes it’s his mission in life to describe the physical attributes of some of the highest-level women in America?

Where are the feminists on this one?

DawnC in the comments under the Yahoo article wrote, “There are plenty of hefty, unattractive, aging men in business, politics, and the news. Articles are about what they say and do, not what they look like.”

Exactly.  This double standard must stop.

Horsey apologized and deleted those two paragraphs:

I want to apologize to Times readers — and to Sarah Huckabee Sanders — for a description that was insensitive and failed to meet the standards of our newspaper. It also failed to meet the expectations I have for myself. It surely won’t be my last mistake, but this particular error will be scrupulously avoided in my future commentaries. I’ve removed the offending description.

— David Horsey

Of course, he would’ve been fired if he was talking about a liberal woman.  

Image Credit: By The White House [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Hat Tip: Yahoo News